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Thomas Mercer-Hursh
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And, why, exactly, do you find that compelling? Seems to me, that, if anything, the column name in the DB is the base and everything else is derivative so the derivative should have the prefix. One of the pluses of the prefix in the dictionary is greatly reducing the likelihood of a conflict with a reserved word in a future version. There was a period a number of years ago where I was prefixing the table name with tb for that reason, but I seem to have fallen away from that. The more I think about it, the idea of a prefix which means scope is compile unit makes a lot of sense ... it just isn't what Peter did lo those many years ago.
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